‘Pedagogical Malpractice’: Inside UCLA Medical School’s Mandatory ‘Health Equity’ Class

Washington Free Beacon— Students in their first year of medical school typically learn what a healthy body looks like and how to keep it that way. At the University of California, Los Angeles, they learn that "fatphobia is medicine’s status quo" and that weight loss is a "hopeless endeavor."

Washington Free Beacon—UCLA Med School Launches Review Of ‘Health Equity’ Course But Warns That Whistleblowers Could Be Disciplined. The University of California, Los Angeles medical school is launching a probe of its controversial "health equity" class—and warning whistleblowers they could be punished if any more information leaks about it. The dean of the medical school, Steven Dubinett, announced Friday that his office had formed a task force to review all first-year courses, including […]

TheBlaze—DEI class at UCLA's medical school sets up future doctors to fight the patriarchy and accept 'weight loss is useless'. After the death of George Floyd, the University of California's David Geffen School of Medicine mandated that all first-year students take a DEI course titled "Structural Racism and Health Equity." The course does not provide students with insights into better suturing techniques, healing methods, disease detection, biochemistry, or other conventionally useful medical skills. Rather, its stated purpose is to endow prospective physicians with a "structurally competent, anti-racist lens for...

FOURSTATESHOMEPAGE—Alice Pulsipher’s path to medical school. JOPLIN, Mo. — Medical school is a rigorous schedule for any student - but one soon-to-be grad also had to face several challenges to even get to that point. "My path to becoming a doctor wasn't typical. I didn't think that I could be a doctor. I mean, people like me don't become doctors," said []